1.3.3. Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index (MPI)

The dimensions of poverty go far beyond inadequate income—to poor health and nutrition, low education and skills, inadequate livelihoods, bad housing conditions, social exclusion and lack of participation. The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) complements money-based measures by considering multiple deprivations and their overlap. The index identifies deprivations across the same three dimensions as the HDI and shows the number of people who are multi-dimensionally poor and the number of deprivations with which poor households typically contend.